Jesus enters
Jerusalem on the donkey lent to him. The crowd seems nearer to the fulfillment
of the promise for which so many generations had lived. The shouts,
"Hosanna... Blessed be he who comes in the name of the Lord!", seem
to want to express the meeting, now near, of human hearts with the eternal
Choice. In the midst of this joy which precedes the Passover solemnities, Jesus
is meditative and silent. He is fully aware that that meeting of human hearts
with the eternal Choice will not take place by means of the
"Hosannas," but by means of the cross.
-Blessed John Paul
II, Palm Sunday 1979
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